On 12/10/2015 09:13 PM, Justin Pettit wrote: > >> On Dec 10, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org> wrote: >> >> It looks like xml.dom.minidom doesn't support it. We'd have to manually >> implement the interpretation of xi:include. That might be OK for our >> limited usage since we only care about href="" to a local file and not >> the full set of possible uses of xi:include. >> >> Otherwise, we'd have to switch to another XML parser. lxml supports it, >> but that'd be an external dependency, so I'd rather avoid it. From >> searching around it seems like xml.etree.ElementTree/ElementInclude from >> the Python stdlib is supposed to support this, but I haven't gotten it >> to work yet locally. > > This is something I've had on my to-do list for a while. If you can > figure out a solution, that would be great, since there's quite a bit > of information that needs to be copied between man pages. We use > that extensively in our nroff man pages. In fact, if we had that and > a way to include build-time definitions such as the @RUNDIR@ and > @VERSION@, then I think we could replace all our nroff man pages with > XML.
Sure, that all seems doable. Wei Li, are you working on this? I'm happy to work on adding these things to xml2nroff if not. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
